Styles and Formatting
Keywords: quick styles, format painter, styles, ribbon, Fluent UI
Quick Styles
If you're interested in a more powerful and efficient approach to formatting than just the bold and italic
commands, you'll want to know about styles in the new Word.
You work with styles on the Home tab, in the Styles group:
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Quick Styles are ready-made, professional styles, quick and easy to apply; and they have a new
look with this version of Word. The most frequently used Quick Styles will appear directly on the
Ribbon.
Click the down arrow (#2 in the image below) to see several more ready to use Quick Styles.
Click the Dialog Box Launcher (#3 in the image below) to open the Styles pane. This pane holds
custom-made styles you might have made yourself in a previous version of Word, and it's where
you go to create new or amend existing styles.
Quick Styles are more than convenient, good-looking outfits for your document. Using these styles
throughout your document gives you a great advantage: one-touch makeovers.
Format Painter
Another high-speed formatting command is Format Painter. It's on the very left of the Home tab, in the
Clipboard group. In case you're not familiar with the Format Painter, it's a quick way of duplicating
formatting from one section of text to another.
To use the Format Painter, place the cursor in the text whose format you want to copy and then click
the Format Painter button. If you have more than one place to paint your formatting, make sure you
double-click the Format Painter to get it to stay on. Then select the text that you want to paint on the
new format.
To turn it off, you click the button again, or press ESC.